Biden’s industrial policies represent a stunning ideological reversal. The harder part will be making them work.
industrial policy
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Risks of the Biden Escalation
A false choice has been set up between neoliberal globalization and economic rearmament.
Posted inAmerica and the World
The Enduring Corporate Entrenchment in China
Contrary to Thomas Friedman, Wall Street still makes a killing from China at the expense of workers.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Industrial Policy: Now Comes the Hard Part
Enacting large-scale bipartisan legislation was a minor miracle. It will take an even bigger miracle to spend all that money effectively.
Posted inWorking in America
Industrial Policy Without Industrial Unions
Democrats’ new industrial manufacturing plan leaves unions behind, fumbling a moment of relative leverage for organized labor.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Does the U.S. Have a China Policy?
We actually have several, some at odds with others.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Manufacturing in the Green Industrial Policy Era
How the Inflation Reduction Act’s $50 billion for clean-energy manufacturing could launch the green industrial revolution
Posted inPolitics
Becoming the Workers’ Party Again
With their new and overdue embrace of industrial policy, the Democrats can now
deliver to working-class voters who’ve understandably felt betrayed.
Posted inEconomic Policy
An Industrial Policy Without Worker Protections
The domestic manufacturing bill was meant to be the new frontier of bringing good jobs to America. But workers became an afterthought.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Biden’s New Favorite Industrial-Policy Tool Isn’t Funded
The DPA has become the president’s pet executive authority, and could kick-start American energy manufacturing. But funding is scant and largely controlled by the Pentagon.
